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Stance: Ideas about Emotion, Style, and Meaning for the Study of Expressive Culture

Stance: Ideas about Emotion, Style, and Meaning for the Study of Expressive Culture

Berger, Harris M.

Paperback

Series: Music / Culture

General DramaMusic Instruction: General

ISBN10: 0819568783
ISBN13: 9780819568786
Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr
Published: Feb 28 2010
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.34 Depth: 8.98
Language: English

How we find and make meaning through music and performance

Why does music move us? How do the immediate situation and larger social contexts influence the meanings that people find in stories, rituals, or films? How do people engage with the images and sounds of a performance to make them come alive in sensuous, lived experience? Exploring these questions, Stance presents a major new theory of emotion, style, and meaning for the study of expressive culture. In clear language, the book reveals dimensions of lived experience that everyone is aware of but that scholars rarely account for.

Though music is at the heart of the book, its arguments are illustrated with a wide range of clear examples--from the heavy metal concert to the recital hall, from festivals to dance, stand-up comedy, the movies, and beyond. Helping ethnographers get closer to the experiences of the people with whom they work, this book will be of immediate interest to anyone in ethnomusicology, folklore, popular music studies, anthropology, or performance studies.

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